The latest offensive happened last week when the M23 rebels took Masisi, the administrative centre of the Masisi territory, in North Kivu. Days before, they’d captured another town Katale. Thousands ...
Earlier this month, M23 captured the towns of Minova, Katale and Masisi, west of Goma. “The people of Goma have suffered greatly, like other Congolese,” an M23 spokesperson, Lawrence Kanyuka, ...
Minova, a locality of about 65,000 inhabitants, is in South Kivu province and wedged between Lake Kivu and the Masisi mountains. "The M23 arrived at 6:00 am (0400 GMT). The population is fleeing ...